The friendship of an owl and a kitten became a hit on all social networks. A 5-year-old owl named Fuku-Chan made very good friends with a 2-month-old kitten Marimo. This unusual couple lives in one of the owl cafes in Japan. Previously, there were many different owls, but the owners sold all except ...
Communication media agency Universal McCann conducted a sociological survey, which found that only 6% of Israelis do not use Facebook. 50 thousand people from 65 different countries took part in the polls. Other interesting facts came to light, it turned out that Twitter was never used by 66% ...
A photo of Angela Merkel waving her arms in front of Barack Obama, who is sitting relaxed on a bench, has become the reason for many jokes and “photoshops” on social networks. The photo was taken during the G7 summit in Bavaria. Users, in their comments, suggested what...
Journalist for The New York Times Adrian Chen conducted an investigation and found that Russians are actively spreading provocations on American social networks. Presumably, the organizer of this is the St. Petersburg company Internet Research. It all started in the fall of 2014, when, on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in...
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, felt that the staff of his church did not spend enough time communicating on social networks with “the most active part of the flock.” “If we do not want virtual reality to become such an atheized phenomenon, we will have to seriously think about...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree allowing Roskomnadzor to check the correspondence of users of social networks. The government decree gives Roskomnadzor the right to establish the facts of receipt, transmission, delivery and processing of messages, whether it be voice information, written text, images, sounds or "other electronic messages." Besides,…
The management of the microblogging service Twitter agreed to negotiations with the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Communications (Roskomnadzor). The company, among other things, agreed to work out the issue of determining the daily traffic of popular Russian accounts. On February 13, Roskomnadzor sent an official request to the Twitter administration with a request to explain ...
The Internet can significantly help a person in their quest to lose those extra pounds, according to a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. In a study, researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine found that online diets with higher levels of ...
Around 6 a.m. GMT, social networks Facebook and Instagram stopped working, leaving hundreds of millions of users around the world at a loss. In a short 40 minutes, the Twitter network was flooded with comic messages about the approaching “end of the world” and more serious statements about...
A new study from the Pew Research Center showed that the number of adult users of the social networking site Facebook remained virtually unchanged over the year. Except for the fact that an unprecedented number of elderly Americans have appeared in the ranks of socially active citizens, who decided to strengthen ties with the old ...